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Columnist: I’m More Afraid Of Legal Gun Owners Than Gun-Wielding Criminals
Daily Caller ^ | 01/08/2016 | Scott Greet

Posted on 01/08/2016 1:50:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

A Baltimore Sun columnist wrote in a Thursday op-ed that citizens who legally  own firearms are more frightening than the criminals who use the weapons on the  rough streets of her hometown.

Tricia Bishop, deputy editorial page editor for the Baltimore paper,  explained how billboards advertisements for guns and everyday Americans carrying  them around made her sick.

“I’m less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore… than I am by  those permitted gun owners,” Bishop  said.

She says this because she believes as a middle-class white woman, she’s  shielded from her city’s criminal element but, in her opinion, she’s not  protected from her neighbors’ legally-purchased weapons.

 

“I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated  city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken  by ‘the game,'” she wrote. “But I don’t know where the legal gun owners are or  how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting  firearms, won’t one day introduce that weapon to my daughter.”

 

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; baltimore; baltimoresun; banglist; blackkk; elijahcummings; guncontrol; maryland; secondamendment; triciabishop; whiteguilt
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To: Responsibility2nd

Reminds me of the people in the 1968 anti-gun hysteria who turned over their guns to the police, then complained they lived in fear of their neighbors who still had their guns!


81 posted on 01/08/2016 4:47:46 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Responsibility2nd

What a moron. This woman should go over to a neighbor’s and ask to borrow a cup of ammo so she can shoot herself in the head. She is way to stupid to live.


82 posted on 01/08/2016 5:00:08 PM PST by jocon307
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Columnist: I’m More Afraid Of Legal Gun Owners Than Gun-Wielding Criminals"
To to columnist:
Why? What is it you what like to see done to or you would like to do to legal gun owners that makes you more afraid of them than criminals?
I'm guessing it's along the lines of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot...
83 posted on 01/08/2016 5:01:05 PM PST by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Responsibility2nd
I'm perplexed. Ms. Bishop is afraid to have her daughter anyplace where a legally owned firearm is present, but she wants a public database instead of just asking the adults present in the house where she wants her daughter to have a play date. Does that mean Ms. Bishop lets her daughter go to play at houses where she doesn't know the parents?

Personally I can think of many things more important than whether or not a legal firearm is present that I would want to know before I let my daughter stay unaccompanied at someone else's home.

84 posted on 01/08/2016 5:27:21 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: Responsibility2nd

No doubt this Liberal moron supports Planned Parenthood which is responsible for 100 times more murders in a day than all the Legal Gun Owners in America put together do in a year.


85 posted on 01/08/2016 5:34:59 PM PST by Gritty (Syrians aren't Jews fleeing Nazi Holocaust but Nazis relocating from a bombed out Berlin-DGreenfield)
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To: Responsibility2nd

“Look at that, son: that is what you call a stupid, ignorant, politically correct liberal white b!tch...”


86 posted on 01/08/2016 5:41:47 PM PST by sargon
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To: Rummyfan

I guess she’ll be moving to West Baltimore then.

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She seems kind of racist to me. I think North Korea would be more to her liking.


87 posted on 01/08/2016 5:49:40 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s great to see how this woman researched before she took the time to write an op/ed piece that completely ignores the facts about how those law abiding gun carriers aren’t hurting people.

Colonel Cooper had a word for her kind.


88 posted on 01/08/2016 6:13:51 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Scott Greet should be


89 posted on 01/08/2016 6:45:27 PM PST by CPT Clay (Hillary: Julius and Ethal Rosenberg were electrocuted for selling classified info.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
These folk are beyond sick......


90 posted on 01/08/2016 7:14:12 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Hang'emAll

“She needs to publish her address as a gun free zone...”

I completely agree with you. It would seem the solution is simple, simply publish the names and addresses of all homes WITHOUT firearms so the writer and other worried people (who seem eager to be safe) can know where they won’t be in danger, consider them individual “gun-free zones”, after all the concept has worked so well in public buildings why shouldn’t it work here?


91 posted on 01/08/2016 7:44:51 PM PST by Exeter (Hillary Clinton's new campaign slogan-"Gimme that crown! It's MINE!")
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To: Responsibility2nd
Logic is obviously not one of Tricia's strengths.

She wants a registry so that she can determine ahead of time whether or not her daughter would be "safe" visiting a neighbor or acquaintance.

Tricia, dear, you don't need the cooperation of gun owners to accomplish what you want. Simply organize the anti-gunners and create a database of those who agree with you. You will quickly have a thick book of safe places for you and your family.

Burglars and home-invaders will also take advantage of such a directory, but that is another matter.

So, Tricia, get started on this. I can't wait to have a way to determine that some household is anti-gun so I can keep MY family safe by avoiding it completely.

92 posted on 01/08/2016 8:30:03 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Responsibility2nd
**I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city**

So, she has the *luxury* of being middle class and white!

Under lib standards, doesn't that make her guilty?

Because, it's my understanding that being a white middle class person - while choosing to segregate oneself from the *have-nots* - qualifies one as a racist.

So by her own lefty standards, it's obviously her duty to move to a desegregated area ASAP - for the cause of social justice, of course.

93 posted on 01/09/2016 8:33:47 AM PST by Heart of Georgia (We need Cruz. Simple as that.)
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To: Responsibility2nd; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Dear Tricia, you are committing child abuse by shielding your daughter from weapons.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


94 posted on 01/09/2016 12:52:17 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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